Building Your Own Clusters for Parallel Computation
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SCL Cluster Cookbook Building Your Own Clusters for Parallel Computation |
| Where to Start | Introduction to Clusters |
| Recipe for a Small Cluster |
How to Build a Four-Node Cluster
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| Commodity Computers |
Selecting your components:
Motherboards,
Memory and
Cache, and
Assembly Complete Systems - An alternative to building your own systems
HINT Benchmarks of Commodity Systems
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| Interconnect |
Myrinet,
Gigabit Ethernet,
ATM,
Fast Ethernet,
FDDI,
HIPPI
Performance of Commodity Interconnects Running NetPIPE
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| Operating Systems |
Linux,
FreeBSD,
NetBSD,
Windows NT,
Windows95
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| Libraries for Parallel Applications |
MPICH, PVM, DIPC, ScaLAPACK |
| Compilers and Related Tools |
Absoft, GNU, Paralogic, The Portland Group
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| Putting It Together | Assembling the Cluster |
| Applications | Example applications and programming assistance |
| Cluster Projects | Other Projects |
| Bibliography | Publications Related to Cluster Computing |
| Glossary | Supercomputing Terminology |